I can't believe I haven't started a dedicated thread on this before now!! I wanted to open a discussion on the Planetary Society's plans to develop a website called AmateurSpaceImages.com, a place that will collect amateur-processed space images into one place that is easy to browse and search for great pictures, and from which you'll be able to share them easily via social networks. The organization of the site will be based on Photojournal, which is itself based on the way the PDS structures space data -- all images will be filed under the "target" and "mission" and "instrument," plus there will be image titles, captions, and correct credits; plus there'll be tags and a search feature. The site is currently under development and is planned for launch early next year (hopefully March, if the schedule doesn't slip). We're now raising funds from the community to support its development.

Some of you have been emailing me privately with questions; I think it'd be neater (and less effort for me ) to have that discussion in the open, on this thread. If for some reason you'd like your question to be anonymous, you can email me and I'll post it here. Since this is a website we are creating especially for the community that has grown up in and around UMSF, I hope you will participate in its formation!

It's true that we're "not party to the details," but I admitted that point in my original post. I was simply responding to Emily's post where she expressed frustration with the programmer's delays due to his life's-choice decisions. It didn't sound as if the delays were due to difficult, technical problems that bit someone in their behind.

I'm not trying to give anyone a hard time here, except, perhaps, the anonymous programmer. I'm confident that it will be a great site when Emily unveils it, and I, too, look forward to the results.

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